Bug 673915

Summary: Documentation about --os-type and --os-variant
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland>
Component: doc-Virtualization_Administration_GuideAssignee: Scott Radvan <sradvan>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: ecs-bugs
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Priority: medium    
Version: 6.0CC: jskeoch, jwest, moshiro, pkennedy, rlandman
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OS: Windows   
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Description Douglas Schilling Landgraf 2011-01-31 04:36:11 UTC 
Description of problem:

During the installation of a Windows guest by virt-install the first
part of installation will proceed without any problem, but the next part of Windows (which requires a reboot) the CDROM will be automatically disconnected.

How reproducible:
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virt-install --accelerate --hvm --connect qemu:///system --name win2k3-x86_12 --network bridge:virbr0 --file=/dev/sdd3 --cdrom=/kvm-data/WinSvr_2005_R2_ENT_1of2.iso --vnc --ram=1024

How to fix?
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To proceed with the Windows installation without CDROM disconnecting, is required to to use --os-type windows, like:

virt-install --accelerate --hvm --connect qemu:///system --name win2k3-x86_12 --network bridge:virbr0 --file=/dev/sdd3 --cdrom=/kvm-data/WinSvr_2005_R2_ENT_1of2.iso --vnc --ram=1024 --os-type windows

Finally can we also, document an optional option as well:
--os-variant 

Further optimize the guest configuration for a specific operating system variant. This parameter is optional.

Thanks
Douglas